Looking for Strands answers for Monday, April 21? Check those out below:
Ready for a Strands puzzle to make you hungry? Well that’s going to probably happen today, so hopefully you had your breakfast.
How To Play Strands
The New York Times’ Strands puzzle is a play on the classic word search. It’s in beta for now, which means it’ll only stick around if enough people play it every day.
There’s a new game of Strands to play every day. The game will present you with a six by eight grid of letters. The aim is to find a group of words that have something in common, and you’ll get a clue as to what that theme is. When you find a theme word, it will remain highlighted in blue.
You’ll also need to find a special word called a spangram. This tells you what the words have in common. The spangram links two opposite sides of the board. While the theme words will not be a proper name, the spangram can be a proper name. When you find the spangram, it will remain highlighted in yellow.
Be warned: You’ll need to be on your toes.
“Some themes are fill-in-the-blank phrases. They may also be steps in a process, items that all belong to the same category, synonyms or homophones,” The New York Times notes. “Just as she varies the difficulty of Wordle puzzles within a week, [Wordle and Strands editor Tracy]
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Bennett plans to throw Strands solvers curveballs every once in a while.”
What Is Today’s Strands Hint?
Here’s the NYT hint with mine coming after that.
Counter offers
And mine is
Starbucks
I am spelling it out a little more this time.
What Are Today’s Strands Answers?
Spoilers follow with the spangram and the answers after. The spangram is:
CAFEMENU
And here’s where that lies on the board:
And the answers are:
- SANDWICHES
- JUICES
- SOUP
- ESPRESSO
- PASTRIES
- CHAI
There you go. I feel like I don’t usually get soup at a cafe, but most will serve it, I suppose. Perhaps I’m leaning too far into Starbucks and not enough into true cafes. Other than that, thanks to Sabrina Carpenter and her song of the summer, I knew how to spell espresso easily which may not have happened before this.
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